After leaving three thousand bottles of Sea God's Blessing at the Fire Dragon Auction House, Shi Feng took Huo Wu and departed directly, heading for the teleportation hall.
"Guild Leader, with the Fire Dragon Empire's purchasing power, even selling eight thousand bottles should be a walk in the park given the number of players here. Why do we need to go to other empires?" Huo Wu looked at Shi Feng, confused.
"We're too poor right now, and we don't have many Sea God's Blessings on hand. If we want to make more money, scarcity marketing is the only way," Shi Feng said with a bitter smile.
If he could, he'd sell everything at once—avoid the hassle of running around everywhere and wasting time.
But he had far too many expenses right now, especially the renovation and acquisition costs for the twenty shops meant to purchase Diamond Wood. Every extra coin counted.
The Fire Dragon Empire had plenty of players and quite a few first-rate guilds, but to sell Sea God's Blessings at a premium, he couldn't put all his eggs in one basket.
After all, Sea God's Blessing wasn't some cheap consumable going for a few silver a bottle. Even at one gold per bottle, most ordinary players couldn't afford it—only well-funded adventure teams and guilds could buy in bulk.
And there weren't that many adventure teams and guilds in the entire Fire Dragon Empire with that kind of purchasing power, which meant there was a hard limit on how many Blessings he could move at a high price.
That was why he'd put up three thousand bottles first to test the waters.
Before long, Shi Feng teleported with Huo Wu to the Beast City of the Beast Empire. Meanwhile, the Scorpion—who had been quietly tailing him the whole time—was seething with rage.
He'd barely arrived at Fire Dragon City an hour ago, and now Shi Feng had already left for somewhere else.
If it were some wilderness area, that would be one thing, but he had to go all the way to the distant Beast Empire—each teleportation cost three gold and seventy-four silver.
Before he'd even found an opportunity to strike, he'd already burned through more than ten gold. That was money he'd painstakingly saved up to buy a new weapon.
He was indeed a top-tier expert of the Holy Law Hall, but the guild only provided him with some high-end gear now and then. Most weapons, equipment, and Skill Books he still had to buy on his own—the only advantage was that he could purchase them at a discount using gold coins or guild contribution points.
But now nearly a third of his savings had vanished in one go. At this moment, he wanted nothing more than to just kill Shi Feng right then and there.
...
Shortly after Shi Feng left the Fire Dragon Auction House, the Sea God's Blessing appeared in the auction house's consumable listings.
"What kind of person is this?! One bottle for one gold and sixty silver—have they lost their mind?!"
"Holy crap, are they selling dragon blood or something?!"
...
Guild and team procurement officers who had come to the auction house to stock up on various consumables stared at the Sea God's Blessing in disbelief.
Normally, the mid-tier recovery potions and mid-tier mana potions they bought only cost a few silver per bottle. Even a full stack of those wouldn't be worth a single bottle of Sea God's Blessing. Even something as rare as a Mana Infusion went for only about ten silver—and that was a premium consumable that boosted a player's mana pool by ten percent.
Now here was a potion nobody had ever even heard of, daring to ask for one gold and sixty silver—and that was just the starting price. It was robbery. No—robbery would be slower.
But the procurement officers took a deep breath and clicked on the Sea God's Blessing's attribute panel, reading the detailed description carefully.
As procurement officers for their guilds and teams, their job was to collect every useful potion and daily consumable they could. For any new potion that appeared, they had to review it thoroughly—miss something rare and valuable, and they'd face punishment from management.
Once they finished reading the description, their mockery and sneering vanished in an instant, replaced by excitement and frenzy.
"Captain, I found an incredible potion! It boosts all attributes by ten percent, adds a hundred points to all magic resistance, and lasts twelve hours. If our entire Thunder Corps drank one, even tackling Hell Difficulty wouldn't be a problem!"
"Is it really that good? Buy every last bottle!"
"But the price isn't cheap."
"Not cheap? How much is he asking? As long as it's not outrageous, we're taking everything."
"The starting price is one gold and sixty silver per bottle."
"..."
The procurement officers of every major guild and team immediately contacted their superiors. For potions costing a few dozen silver, they could make the call themselves—but at these prices for the Sea God's Blessing, they simply didn't have the authority.